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whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary "why is this so funny!!" or "i cant believe i found the original" reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work
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grad school is weirdly psychologically straining. idk how to explain it. But my advice is basically. If you're considering something drastic, also consider things that are less drastic. If you're considering quitting, then also consider threatening to quit. If you're considering suicide, consider quitting. Whatever drastic thing you're consdiering because you're about to fail a class or a candidacy exam, also consider just failing and continuing anyway. You know? It's not waht you wanted, but if you're already considering something outside of the sapce of stuff you wanted, consider all the stuff less drastic than it too
good advice, not specific to grad school
i found the weirdest yt channel like its not even really weird but im just???
but anyway some girl has spend years animating a show with her furry ocs set in a western universe with hints of?? native american and aztec mythology as well as like bits of others but not really cause theres a rabbit who wears a fuckin sailor outfit and i cant follow the plot at all and theres a crane called ichabod bc subtle
i actually love this
Okay, but for this to be animated by one person is fucking AMAZING because we have indie animated projects started and shattered by full teams that don’t even have this much flow.
Youtube is weird because sometimes you find amazing art projects buried in it’s annuals that defy explanation due to their quality and the fact they never went viral.
To watch
i’ve been binging this and i’m on episode 24 and really i find the story pretty interesting and not really that difficult to follow??? my only concern is how all the human children except for like Charles inexplicably look like full-grown adults instead of like actual children
I’ve been a fan of No Evil for a little over a year, and I really can’t recommend it enough! Episodes 1-9 are mostly just animation tests and shorts to get an idea of the characters (though episode 2 and 7 are important to understand the backstory and episode 8 and 9 set up two major conflicts throughout the rest of the series).
There’s a lot of exposition in episode 10 which can be hard to follow on a first watch but is really rewarding when you go back to re-watch everything. Also, the animation is freakin gorgeous now and then, just
SHAPESHIFTING
MAGIC
BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS
FULLY ANIMATED ASL
PERFECT REACTION GIFS
Also they arrange and record a lot of the music in the show all on their own which is frankly amazing https://youtu.be/L6SZgUVTb4Q
No Evil is so good, you really get lost in the magic of the world and are soon invested in the characters. The designs are so cool and the songs are choice.
If you want help getting into the show on YouTube (because the first few episodes are kinda vague and arent explained till later) you can read the comic that takes places before the show
I highly recommend this one, these people put together an amazing story animating at home and recording in their closets and it deserves as much love in response as was put into its creation
The real reason you couldn’t make Airplane! today is that it’s a parody of a type of movie that doesn’t exist anymore in part because Airplane! made fun of it so hard
The 70s-style disaster film was already dying but Airplane becoming, by far, more known, more watched, and more liked than any real example of the genre even though it was the most popular type of movie right up until Star Wars is one of the most magnificent examples of Weird Al-ing something
The jester mocking the court advisor so deftly, the curse on the king breaks because His Majesty realizes that guy does suck.
To quote Daniel Craig: “We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us.”
One unbelievable fact I learned looking for that quote: the Austin Powers sequels outgrossed both of the last two Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies.
Man those Brosnan Bond movies are such a weird transitional moment in pop culture. People tend to analyze that by going “well the Brosnan Bond films were Bond trying to figure things out after the Cold War ended, Craig is post-9/11 Bond” when the actual dividing line is the start of the Austin Powers Era of History
The best satire self destructs.
Satire that lasts 50 years and still elicits “OMG so true"s ain’t worth SHIT to me. If it’s still true after that long, it’s just snark with no bite. Real satire is a knife (or sometimes a scalpel) that dispatches the target of its criticism and in so doing makes itself irrelevant (if not incomprehensible). It’s Jon Stewart getting Crossfire cancelled, it’s Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin so seamlessly that her ticket was unelectable, it’s Duchamp mocking the art scene so hard he irrevocably changed its course.
If satire is still relevant long after its creation, it has failed at its mission. It might be funny, it might be good comedy, but it’s not good satire.
A lot of satire is of its time and one of the better signs of that is how many satirical works just. Outlast what they were parodying and no one knows they’re a parody anymore
Obviously that describes 90% of Weird Al’s songs, but like, Lord of the Flies is a parody of a specific type of British adventure novel (and a specific novel, even) and it’s outlasted it so long that people bring up the satirical aspects of Lord of the Flies to criticize Lord of the Flies.
#but the thing is like#people are such fucking pussies now#and are so frightened of being made fun of that they won’t create anything earnestly#let’s not pretend james bond is ruined bc it can be made fun of#the only reason you would be scared of that is if you had no integrity or artistic vision in the first place#like i’m sorry but like#‘oh we have to be invulnerable to satire’ is a fool’s take on cinema#and is part of why a lot of film now is garbage and soulless#bc its creators are too scared to be earnest lest they be mocked#as if mockery is the worst thing that can happen to you (johannestevans)
opposite to conventional representation, massopoda sculpture of the late Triassic period was often brightly painted. Imagine the ancient city roads flanked with kneeling Kholumolumo Ellenbergerorum warriors such as this one
1946 Howard University students
(photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock)
Tumblr makes sense to me bc if i see something i like i get excited and hit the button to show other people and theres no weird unspoken social conventions my autistic brain doesnt understand. I can literally sit here and reblog 150 niche shitposts about harvest mice in an hour just bc they make me happy and i dont have to explain myself to anyone and i'll actually *gain* followers instead of just being called weird and downvoted or whatever its so cool
I love it here.
AMAZING news: the Reproductive Freedom Act in Ohio has now officially been CERTIFIED to be on the ballot in this November's election. It gathered 495,938 signatures from 55 counties across Ohio. Republicans messed around & women & young people will make them find out.
Okay, but Ohioans need to get the fuck to the polls for our special election on August 8th!!! The Republican fucks are trying to change our simple majority necessary for amendments to 60%. The Columbus Dispatch says "Issue 1 is one of the most significant questions Ohio voters will be asked in generations," and that's no exaggeration. Get out there, and vote no. Early voting and absentee ballot requests are still going on, if you are registered to vote!
We gotta vote no on issue 1 in Ohio on August 8th, 2023.
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted last month “[Issue 1] is 100% about keeping a radical, pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution.”
Why don’t you cook fresh corn shuck-on in the oven at 425° for 30 minutes, shuck, then eat with butter, salt, pepper, and grated parmesan and then maybe you'll calm down
Corn on the cob qualifies as an
or microwave them? I swear to you it works! I’m a born and raised Iowan so I know what I’m talking about lol (nevermind the fact I saw this handy trick online...) so you leave all the leaves on the cob. Do not shuck it! then cut off the bottom butt of the cob clean off, including the stem. like where it first starts the fat rounded butt around the stem. about a centimeter cut from the cob. loosing a few kernels is a small price to pay for this hack - trust me. put the corn cob on a paper towel in the microwave and heat for 4 and a half minutes. with the leaves still on! I cannot stress this enough. take it out carefully - it's gonna be HOT. maybe wear gloves or use a wash cloth. then squeeze the corn cob out from the top towards the opening at the bottom. you’ll have to squeeze hard my lovelies till it comes out all the way onto your plate. add loads of salt and butter and enjoy! End result is that you should have perfectly cooked corn cob with no water boiling involved and no tedious corn hair removal. - that nonsense is left behind inside the leaves. the leaves themselves provide the moisture needed to cook the kernels of corn inside. TLDR: cut off the butt - about one centimeter, microwave 4:30, squeeze it out the bottom opening, enjoy!
I’m gonna make one up right now and take plenty of photos to illustrate :)
Yes! Do this if you A) don't have an oven or B) don't have 45 minutes to wait for corn to cook. DON'T SHUCK YOUR CORN BEFORE U COOK IT! waste of time! The shuck is super easy to remove after cooking. Personally I like the roasty taste when I do it in the oven, and you can do a bunch at once. I usually cook at least 4 at a time. Also works on BBQ grills and campfires.
Perfectly cooked microwaved corn on the cob :) illustrated by wolfie180g who is currently eating the cobs pictured
I really hope people online aren't getting the wrong impression of unions and that they're flawless Things that will protect them from any and all mistreatment and that strikes are fun little treats union workers get
Unions are People not Things. Union leaders can fuck up. Unions can definitely operate in a way that gets you low wages and poor benefits if you're not being represented well.
A union by itself does not guarantee you anything. Unions take work and money to run. You pay dues, you go to meetings, you vote. You protect each other in a union. You don't join a union and magically have everything taken care of for you.
Strikes are a powerful tool but are scary. They're not a goal to achieve. Unions don't aim to go on strike during negotiations.
I have this conversation every time I talk with someone on the fence/anti-union. Is my union perfect? Far from; I have lots of issues about it. Fuck, I just got a call from my BA last week to talk about something critical I posted on our negotiation. But like I say every time, I'll take the sometimes flawed union power that I ostensibly have some say in over being entirely at the whim and mercy of an employer any day.
Your daily dose of cat memes
I do in fact need everything to be okay
More people should abandon Internet discourse and get into observing/engaging with local politics. I say this not because local politics often offers more meaningful opportunities for effective praxis (although it does), but because local politics often offers just as much highly toxic and entertaining petty drama.
I highly recommend city council meetings. You might make yourself an informed voter and active community member or something. You also might get to watch an ongoing soap opera of old men ready to murder one another over trash collection ordinances, and unlike the Internet, none of them can effectually tell one another to kill themselves no matter how hard and how clearly they are thinking it.
As a rape survivor, I understand the need for safe space together – free from sexist harassment and potential violence. But fear of gender variance also can't be allowed to deceptively cloak itself as a women's safety issue. I can't think of a better example than my own, and my butch friends', first-hand experiences in public women's toilets. Of course women need to feel safe in a public restroom; that's a serious issue. So when a man walks in, women immediately examine the situation to see if the man looks flustered and embarrassed, or if he seems threatening; they draw on the skills they learned as young girls in this society to read body language for safety or danger.
Now, what happens when butches walk into the women's bathroom? Women nudge each other with elbows, or roll their eyes, and say mockingly, "Do you know which bathroom you're in?" Thats not how women behave when they really believe there's a man in the bathroom. This scenario is not about women's safety – its an example of gender-phobia.
And ask yourself, if you were in the women's bathroom, and there were two teenage drag queens putting on lipstick in front of the mirror, would you be in danger? If you called security or the cops, or forced those drag queens to use the men's room, would they be safe?
If the segregation of bathrooms is really about more than just genitals, then maybe the signs ought to read "Men" and "Sexually and Gender Oppressed," because we all need a safe place to go to the bathroom. Or even better, let's fight for clean individual bathrooms with signs on the doors that read "Restroom."
And defending the inclusion of transsexual sisters in women's space does not threaten the safety of any woman. The AIDS movement, for example, battled against the right-wing characterization of gay men as a "high-risk group." We won an understanding that there is no high-risk group – there are high-risk behaviors. Therefore, creating safety in women's space means we have to define unsafe behavior – like racist behavior by white women towards women of color, or dangerous insensitivity to disabilities.
Transsexual sisters are not a Trojan horse trying to infiltrate women's space. There have always been transsexual women helping to build the women's movement – they are part of virtually every large gathering of women. They want to be welcomed into women's space for the same reason every woman does – to feel safe.
Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond
char aznable feeds you a sardine
They always got this bitch doing random ass shit now why is he feeding me a sardine? Not that I’m complaining
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her new dress is so beautiful [image description: an illustration of Laudna, from Critical Role. She is standing against a backdrop of creepy trees. She is wearing her new dress, and Pâté is on her shoulder. Her Hound of Ill Omen is standing by her side, staring ominously towards the viewer. She looks creepy and confident and very sexy because she has a girlfriend. End ID]
foreman. babe. we’re at the bottom end of season 8. you have worked here for almost a decade. why are you still surprised there's medical malpractice going on at the medical malpractice department that you, personally, used to do medical malpractice at
some of my fave tags on this post
god this show is truly bonkers isn’t it.
